League fines Lynch $11,050 for unsportsmanlike conduct

Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch won’t be saying “thank you” to the league office this week. (He may instead be using a different two-word expression that ends in “you.”)

Per a league source, Lynch received a fine in the amount of $11,050 for his backward dive while grabbing his crotch into the end zone at the tail end of his career-long 79-yard touchdown run. Lynch wasn’t flagged for the move, which was deemed to be unsportsmanlike conduct.

It’s the same finisher Lynch applied nearly four years ago, at the tail end of his “Beastquake” run against the Saints in the playoffs. Monday’s edition of PFT on NBCSN included a split-screen of the eerily similar runs with the identical endings.

I know that was an awesome run but my god, That was just poor tackling on the cardinals. Petterson that was just pathetic, lynch shoved you away like the waste of resources that you are. Props to lynch but seriously NFL step your tackling game up

Marshawn Lynch is a criminal and a bad person. A DUI, assault, gun charges etc…and if you watch him during games he basically never stops talking trash to his opponents. A lowlife scumbag in the truest sense of the term

According to Sherman, Lynch was just sending a message to Patrick Peterson about his flimsy, girlie tackle attempt when he performed his backward dive while grabbing his crotch into the end zone at the tail end of his career-long 79-yard touchdown run.

Lynch was saying that Peterson’s feeble tackle attempt was a real insult and an affront to him and to NFL football. Reviewing the tape, Peterson wanted no part of Lynch.

Dear nfl players, if you could please just play the game without emotion, don’t do anything that may fire yourselves up because someone else might feel inferior, please stop having individual personalities and please just play like the robots we want you all to become! Keep complaining about everything people, entertainment will become a thing of the past

Get used to it Seahawks haters. It’s gonna be a bad new year for you. Gonna be watching a lot of Seahawk games. Including watching them get covered in blue and green confetti. Anybody who doesn’t like lynch is someone I wouldn’t wanna hang out with. Get off your high horse, it’s funny. I don’t get offended by anything, I’m not a victim.

Marshawn The Best In The League…He Doesnt Miss Games…Preductable…What Happen To The Reggie Bushes of the league the Chris Johnson Of The League…My Point Is Dont Believe in the hype Marshawn about that Action Boss Lol

Soon football will be played via the coaches submitting their play to the super computer and it will run the play 100,000 times to insure the results are accurate. Ball will just be placed at the spot the computer deems correct.

GOOD JOB GOODELL!

How about you penalize for yourself for violating the spirit of Football?

I am not offended by his move, I think its silly that he is so against talking to the media, but ok with making that kind of statement.

I do hope the parents that voice concern over this sort of action, take the time to explain to their kids why this isn’t an appropriate action. After seeing it you could have it explained to your child before the fist car commercial is over. After all it is the parents job to make sure their kids are raised properly, not Lynch’s.

I said the same thing. How can people not approve of a comment like that? Something to be said for good sportsmanship and humility. 11 times out of 10 I’m going to teach my kid how to be a good human. The world needs more of it. Not a lions fan but I miss Barry Sanders.

Yet millions of adults with their children go see the WWE every week and you just don’t see an uproar. The DGeneration X used to used the “Crotch Grab” as a normal part of the act and no-one cared…

What is the issue?

Marshawn Lynch gives more to his Oakland charities in a year then you or I give in a lifetime, yet no-one mentions that.

The 10k fine is a joke in a league that promotes Cheerleader outfits so small, you couldn’t or wouldn’t wear it in any other public location, but all that’s OK, too, as long as it’s ‘holsome’ T&A… right NFL?

hawkforlife says:
Dec 25, 2014 5:02 PM
Like it or not kids ARE watching. Even if it wasn’t a football game on tv I wouldn’t like my kids to see it. I know they don’t have to be role models if they don’t want to, however……

To all of you that are crying about your kids please stop. First I watched the play live including the instant replays and never even noticed it until the uproar by PFT and other sports news outlets.

Second, I would be more worried about the TV & movie shootings, rapes, stabbings, thefts, bombings, nudity and Jerry Springer types than I would one crotch grab by an athlete in mid air.
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I am more worried about that. People shouldn’t have to worry about these issues with sports on tv. But yeah you’re right kids aren’t impressionable at all are they….what with all the school shootings, and B.S. happening with the young people in Missouri. You’re right athletes grab away at your wangs and act like punks, beat people up it’s cool. I’m sure I am just missing the point.

Dec 25, 2014 1:52 PM – number1hawkfan says: … Anybody who doesn’t like lynch is someone I wouldn’t wanna hang out with. Get off your high horse, it’s funny. I don’t get offended by anything, I’m not a victim.
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Yeah, try that at your workplace. Get everyone’s attention, and grab your crotch in front of a bunch of customers. You might get a lot of support from the classless cronies you “wanna hang out with,” but from your employer? Not so much.

He fits right in with that cast of characters in seattle… PED pete, is the perfect leader for this cast of characters.

Just like his mock interview he did. Old Rog should have fined him for that as well. “Yeah” right lynch?….

This band of losers is perfect for seattle… Their superbowl and .484 winning percentage.. They sure have sooooooo much to brag about over everyone else in the league. Even Carolina and Jacksonville have a better win percentage than seattle does. It’s all doom and gloom in the pacific northwest!

What! Ridiculous. Never noticed, nor would care if I did. Boys are always adjusting their packages. No need to irritate him, especially since he is not on my fav team. My team has a very cute guy who dropped an F bomb…he was right to ask why the morons taped it. This isn’t a monk retreat, it is football. You blow up a WHOLE team with that run, you might be tad pumped up. And if those idiots in head office keep pushing him, he’ll take a walk…not good. He may not be chatty Kathy, but he exemplifies second effort. No one comes close. There was a play a few games back, where he was upended, and while upside down he had his legs still churning. Like he could run upside down!…that was my ah-ha moment. This dude never quits.

I really don’t like celebrations every time someone makes a sack tackle or mediocre play. ReMinds me of what the xfl was trying to do. But I have liked Seahawks since they were a team. I spent a long time watching them lose. I’m loving their style of play offense defense special teams. All three phases.

Watched it like 100 times, sure doesn’t look that blatant, kinda looks like hes grabbing his thight, but I guess the first 10 times I watched this play before I ever knew he grabbed himself I never noticed, guess its not really a big deal at all until someone can make a few bucks by saying it is. Nice run, really was, wasn’t as good as the run vs NO, but it was beast mode none the less. Dudes a beast but im glad to have Lacy 🙂

Also it seems like the NFL genuinely dislikes Lynch, I don’t really understand, his persona is mysterious and the fans love it, let him be, let him be his own character, the fans don’t need to hear every players cliché by the book pressers after every game, we like this guy. And im a Packers fan, but I like this guy, and I like that he doesn’t give a F about anything other than making grown men look like toddlers on the football field. Hes part of the reason the NFL is successful, hes not part of the % of NFL players that hurt the NFL image, leave him alone.

Like it or not kids ARE watching. Even if it wasn’t a football game on tv I wouldn’t like my kids to see it. I know they don’t have to be role models if they don’t want to, however……
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I hope all you do-gooder types whining about this shield your little dung beetles from watching the evening news. What you see there is far far worse than what you and the media claim Lynch did. Had the media not brought it to everyone’s attention over and over and over it would have been a total no issue. This is pay back it seems for his interviews.

Whats really happening here is all those fans of other pathetic teams, venting their frustration about another year, with a loosing team and record.

Poor people, some teams been in league more than 50 years, ain’t never been to the dance or playoffs. But each years they bring back same tired coaches and players. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and exspecting a different result.

Weed them out one by one. Ray Rice, Peterson, and Lynch is next. Parents that spend money on products they see advertised during NFL games will start turning off their TV sets if the league didn’t do anything to keep these guys in line. The sponsors start pulling out and then everyone loses money. Players, owners, and commissioners. It’s not about having fun or being politically correct. It’s about money and the NFL is big business. That’s why they have an intelligent guy like Roger Goodell running the show. That’s why everyone’s making money. In other words, Goodell and the NFL are doing Marshawn a favor. He may not have the brains to figure it out, but its’ true.

Everyone hating on Lynch about this didn’t even know he grabbed crotch until the stupid NFL made a big deal about it. I know it is just the same as shooting someone, fight animals or beating one your wife so we must spot it. Everyone I talked to who watched the game didn’t even see him grab his crotch so shut the hell up about the “Kids seeing this”. The ones bitching about the kids see this are probably have “sexy” and “juicy” written on they pants while watching honey boo boo.

listen to all the lowlife Cheathawk fans defending this shlub.
You guys are funny.
“Don’t you insult MY rb, don’t you know my whole life revolves around a football team and I have nothing else to live for so I have defned a classless POS that doesn’t even know I exist?”

Didn’t see the crotch grabbing incident, but all I can think of whenever I hear of or see a guy doing this is that he must have some manhood insecurities. Why would a grown man think he’s cool to be grabbing and shaking his crotch in public??? I guess anything goes if it “makes” you more of a man.

Would have been a great run if it had mattered to the outcome of the game. Beast mode in garbage time of a blowout though? Who really cares. Seattle won’t need his services next year, or to succeed in the playoffs this year.

what people on here don’t seem to understand, is that Lynch doesn’t really give a rip what anyone thinks. Growing up where he grew up, he’s been called worse, has been treated worse, and has seen a lot worse than the crybaby garbage that the media and a lot of fans of other teams throw at him. Say all you want. This is a guy who knows who he is. The crotch grab may have been a little extreme, but I don’t want my kids growing up to please other people. Life is too short. Be your own person. You do you, Marshawn.

ESPN didn’t have any problem making it the #2 POD… I really didn’t notice it until this article. Yes, I have kids, no Lynch is not raising them. Every time you run a couple of guys over, that is one hell of a run.

Do not expect TV to raise your verminous brats. If you are dumb enough to bring kids into this global debt and death Ponzi scheme then that’s your problem. How about spending your time putting an end to the importing of heroin for your brats by the CIA. Go Hawks!

its just childish. no matter what you think of whether or not they should be forced to do it, it is in their contracts. that is really all that matters, so to act like he is acting, its just really immature, you are paid among the top Americans for a job that covers all of a 4-5 month period.

to be honest it just makes me not like the guy. all you have to do is be a decent person, and you know, follow what you signed.

afcdomination says:
Dec 25, 2014 10:44 PM
its just childish. no matter what you think of whether or not they should be forced to do it, it is in their contracts. that is really all that matters, so to act like he is acting, its just really immature, you are paid among the top Americans for a job that covers all of a 4-5 month period.

to be honest it just makes me not like the guy. all you have to do is be a decent person, and you know, follow what you signed.
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I understand Lynch isn’t easy to like I am indifferent on him, from the whole taking a tip at a restaurant, to riding around midfield on the injury cart in college.

He is a goofy dude, but he has been well behaved, and like his contract says if you don’t do something you will be fined. He pays them, Seattle has a other people that I find way more obnoxious in the organization. I know he has strikes on him for his past, but right now it seems the biggest knock his media interaction.

I noticed the grab right away but whatever, there are commercials where a guy gets punched in the junk trying to buy razors, there will probably be stuff like that at the Super Bowl as well, Is there going to be a big fuss then? Probably not

I don’t understand peeps that say duh,, no fun league! NFL does not want there players expressing themselves. Just be NFL robots and not be able to enjoy themselves. So crossing a white line painted on a field gives you the right to act like an 18 year old? All the way from ODBjr to Lynch, it’s pathetic! If it where up to me, they wouldn’t be allowed to celebrate at all!! Be a Pro, act like a pro on and off the field! When a professional football player scores. Why don’t they just act like they’ve Been there before? And they’ll be back be real soon? By just simply doing what the greatest Halfback did his brief Pro career and just give the ball to the Official? Now that would be professional, cool, fun and much respected! Instead of what these knuckleheads do now. If they don’t like that rule and they can not act like kids when they score? Then they should have chosen a different career. Maybe work 5 or 6 days a week, 10, 14 hour days for 60k a year? Lynch should have been suspended for the Playoffs! lol lol start handing out punishments like that. Plus 50k lol guarantee they would just hand the ball to the Official then 🙂 lol

Here’s the Deal………Marshawn Lynch is true to himself and the Game!! For all you perfect Angels out there that haven’t ever screwed up I understand for you how’s it’s hard to understand? You’re so busy judging others you forget the Cardinal rule that when you’re so busy pointing fingers you’ll always have 3 pointing back at yourselves!!!!! Stop the Hating if you can? True NFL fans support players that play the Game at the Highest Level!!! Marshawn Lynch is Truly one of the Most Amazing Players to watch play the game……..exciting to say the Least. As far as the Commissioner and his Fining of Lynch, please really!!! Commissioner is the epitome of Dumb & Dumber!! Seahawks go to Super Bowl 49 and Win and for all the chatters and naysayers that doesn’t happen by Accident! You don’t get air lifted to Back to Back SB’s……….Lynch is true to himself and the Game and that’s more than I can say about most of the Hatters in the Blog and the Commissioner……….. please!!!

For a man who does not celebrate scoring a TD all season, not even during the last three seasons it is an absolute disgrace to fine him. He never spikes the ball, just drops it in the end zone….never even does a high five, he only shakes hands with other players, to fine him is pure stupidity…just look at his track record of in excessive celebration. While it may not have been appropriate, it was one of the best runs in the history of the NFL….and a little of this or that just might happen on a run like that….beastmode 2.0

As a Cards fan, I can just laugh and acknowledge that alot of Cards fans probably felt he was justified, I totally missed it (thanks for making an issue out of something once again that probably would have gone unnoticed).
Lynch is an amazing player and true Beast and the league should leave these guys alone! Nobody was injured and “boys will be boys”; get over yourselves…this isn’t church and these aren’t choirboys. There’s gonna be cusing and obscene gestures between the “boys”…it’s football not girlscouts! Whose to say he didn’t have to go to the bathroom real bad?
As Sir Charles Barkley once said, “I’m not a role model”, people need to do their own parenting and fans going to football games need to realize they may hear or see something that offends their overly sensitive, moralistic little life bubble–this is the NFL!
They don’t hand out the Lombardi for sportsmanship and the Hawks are playing Champiionship caliber football. The NFL needs to get back to it’s roots and the days when the game could entertain as well as be tough without all the BS fines and frivolous rules.

Bogus fines for nothing is just another example why the NFL is ever so slowly eroding. In 10 years, when the NFL’s attendance and audience is half of what it is now, idiots like Roger Goodall will be scratching their heads and wondering why.

I saw him do that and couldn’t believe he didn’t get flagged. You’re not supposed to do that type of thing.

Plus — how stupid is it to risk an injury by throwing yourself on the ground on your back like that? It just doesn’t make any sense. Had he gotten hurt by doing that, he’d have been nominated for a Darwin Award.

Dec 25, 2014 10:55 PM
“I thought it was hilarious and all in fun. Oh the complete and total hypocrisy of the league.”

Fun? How is grabbing your junk ‘fun’? These are professional football players. As Vince Lombardi would say “When you score a touchdown, act like you’ve been there before’. What Lynch did was immature.

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You must never watch seahawks games, that’s the SECOND TIME IN HIS CAREER in seattle that he has really even celebrated a touchdown, the rest of the time he calms down the rest of the guys around him and shakes hands before walking off the field to let the defense do their thing dominating your team…

What is considered one of the greatest runs in NFL history the beast quake run against the saints in the playoffs in 2010 and has been showed many many many times he did the exact same thing at the end of that run where were all the haters then?

Players routinely jump into the stands, do obscene dance moves, and engage in all manner of caveman celebrations (which I LOVE) and Lynch gets fined for flopping on his back with his hand in his crotch? The NFL is just pissed off because Lynch won’t conform to NFL corporate standards and pander to the media. Ridiculous!

If the NFL finds this outrageous enough to fine him $11050, they should fine themselves the same for each time the show the run he did on New Orleans on their own channel. talk about a double standard.

I find it hilarious seeing everybody sarcastically call Lynch “classy”, or even sarcastically commend him for being such a good role-model.
#1. Your kids are making far worse gestures than that on the playground at school every day, and it has nothing to do with football players.
#2. It’s not like he was making direct eye-contact with someone and grabbing his junk and moving it around, he literally struck a pose mid-air after a 79 yard TD run and held that pose for like, 1/4 of a second.
#3. It’s ok to call out Lynch for this as not being classy, yet no one gives Tom Brady crap from obviously yelling obscenities on the field or coaches cussing out refs on the sidelines.
#4. This isn’t a bunch of kids playing two-hand touch at Sunday school. These are grown men getting physically assaulted constantly, who often times give a ton of time and money back to their communities, and are regular human beings besides all that.
Finally, #5. The NFL is rapidly doing everything it can to turn football into a no-contact, offense-only, do-it-for-the-money sport/business. Maybe football needs more players who do it with passion and occasionally express that passion with a taunt or celebration.
I’d rather my kids see someone who put in years and years of hard work, who can achieve something great and is genuinely excited about having done so than a bunch of PC, overpaid stiffs who are more worried about offending someone than making a great play.
Stop trying to take the sports out of sports.

jessesgear says:
#3. It’s ok to call out Lynch for this as not being classy, yet no one gives Tom Brady crap from obviously yelling obscenities on the field or coaches cussing out refs on the sidelines.
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You are missing the point. Brady’s tirade was not during the play. The cameras had to go search him out on the sideline. That is on the networks for not cutting away. Coaches cussing out the refs are usually for a reason, bad call or replay, again,the networks fault for searching those things out.

Lynch’s potting training incident happened DURING a scoring play when the cameras are supposed to be on him. Hard to justify the cameras cutting away from a scoring play.

BringBackTheFlex says:
Dec 26, 2014 9:30 PM
jessesgear says:
#3. It’s ok to call out Lynch for this as not being classy, yet no one gives Tom Brady crap from obviously yelling obscenities on the field or coaches cussing out refs on the sidelines.
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I feel you are missing the point. Brady’s tirade was not during the play. The cameras had to go search him out on the sideline. That is on the networks for not cutting away. Coaches cussing out the refs are usually for a reason, bad call or replay, again,the networks fault for searching those things out.

Lynch’s potting training incident happened DURING a scoring play when the cameras are supposed to be on him. Hard to justify the cameras cutting away from a scoring play.

I think you are missing the point actually, he isn’t saying what Lynch did was ok, he is trying to say don’t overreact so much.

People run out to Crucify Lynch for a silly choice, Yet Brady gets somewhat of a pass after showering his sideline with the F-Word. I get that Brady doesn’t have the baggage the Lynch does.

Some people will say that these are just a reaction you get from being guys being super”competitive” Some people will tolerate one act more than the other. Some people will say they are both poor sports.

I think both guys made Donkeys of them selves regarding their situation, but I also don’t think anyone needs to get lynched over it though.

Not only what he does for Oakland, but a local news story here (in Seattle) a few weeks ago showed Lynch and Lockette on video footage at a gas station finding a lost wallet. They checked the I.D. and the guys last name was Lynch so Marshawn and Ricardo returned the wallet to the guy in person right then. They drove to the address and returned the wallet. He might not live up to everyone’s standards for class, media relations etc. but to me this story illustrates his character.

Michael Irvin pulled a similar move back in the 90’s against the Eagles in Veterans stadium after scoring & Eagle fans are still butt sore about that. That “perceived unacceptable” taunt was the basis for, a couple of seasons later, the Vet giving a standing ovation to Irvin laying motionless on the turf for a long time with what announcers thought might have been a serious neck injury. The crowd in Philly cheered loudly & gleefully the whole time he was on the turf.